nsb - John:12:1-11

nsb@John:12:1 @ Six days before the Passover Jesus traveled to Bethany. This was where Lazarus lived. He was the man Jesus raised from the dead.

nsb@John:12:2 @ Jesus ate supper there. He and Lazarus sat at the meal while Martha served.

nsb@John:12:3 @ Mary took a pound of very precious ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

nsb@John:12:4 @ Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would betray him said:

nsb@John:12:5 @ »Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred danarii, and given to the poor?«

nsb@John:12:6 @ He did not say this because he cared for the poor. He was a thief. He had the moneybox and took away what was put in it.

nsb@John:12:7 @ Jesus therefore replied: »Let her alone that she may preserve it for the day of my burial.

nsb@John:12:8 @ »You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.«

nsb@John:12:9 @ The common people of the Jews learned that he was there. So they came to see Jesus and Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead.

nsb@John:12:10 @ The chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death.

nsb@John:12:11 @ This is because by reason of Lazarus many of the Jews believed in Jesus.